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Use in varieties of Scots

bruises Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.1 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences138 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 5 3

Occurrences of bruises in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e. But then thur's Jock. They bruises huvnae cleart up yit. I dinna on page 1

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A ken it feels lit bruises bloomin in ablow yer skin, on page 21
nd aw she minds ae you is the bruises an fear; on page 83

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
She's clearly marked wae bruises and there's blood tricklin do on page 146

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
, tae tub anyhin else oan hur bruises. They've gone fae a dark purp on page 45
s sometimes shake and ma skin bruises like a peach. on page 51

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
As she rubbit awa the bruises in private later, she thocht
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
up. And it wisnae jist aw the bruises oan his puss, likes. His over
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Covert in bruises, black an blue on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
p o her cousin's breist been, bruises that luikit like thoomb prein
peir foo Isie hid come bi yon bruises, far her breistbeen jyned the
er ma an Meg Ramsay aboot the bruises she'd seen on Isie's neck in
3 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ma bruises – leuk! leuk! Peggy! Yir na
1 matches

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